Michael Garrick

Pianist and composer at the forefront of British modern jazz since the 1960sOften capricious, frequently didactic, yet invariably passionate about his music, the jazz pianist and composer Mike Garrick, who has died aged 78 following a heart operation, was at the forefront of British modern jazz from the 1960s to the present. Creatively restless, Garrick allied himself to jazz innovators such as the Jamaican altoist Joe Harriott and to poets with a penchant for jazz, while also building a conside...

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